Monday, May 25, 2009

Up Till Now

Hello Friends and Family! Amos and I (Emelie) filed paperwork 8 months ago to start our adoption of a child from Burundi, Africa. We spent about two months gathering birth certs, marriage certs, police clearances, passports etc for our homestudy. We completed a phycological evaluation and found we are sane. We finished our homestudy and turned it in in February of 09. We just recently sent in our application for our I-800 from US immigration. An approved I-800 gives us permission to bring an orphan into the US. We got fingerprinted while Amos had a platelett count of 1 and heard back a few days later that we did not include the new requirement, a state clearance from every state we lived in. The letter stated that we had 48 days to write a letter to California where Amos lived for a year and hear back from them that he wasn't in any trouble while living there. Amazingly, we heard back in time and sent it off to immigration before our deadline. Now, we wait...We expect to hear back from immigration by July. As soon as we have an approved I-800, we can get in line for a specific child! We did not specify gender. We asked only that our child be two or younger. We are in for a surprize! Thanks for joining us on our journey!

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